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Over the last quarter of a century, sport history scholars and general enthusiasts have reacquainted themselves with the general narrative of Marshall ‘Major’ Taylor, his late nineteenth- and early...

During the second quarter of the eighteenth century, Jamaica emerged as the richest and most valuable colony in Britain’s Atlantic empire. The labour of enslaved Africans not only fuelled Jamaica’s...

When Bolivian forces engaged the Paraguay Army in 1932 to control the desolate Chaco Boreal they began what would be a monumental transformative project. More than a quarter of a million men served on the Bolivian side, or almost 10 per cent of the total population. Of those, more than 50,000 perished and over 20,000 surrendered. Bolivian prisoners laboured in Paraguay as servants, construction workers, and farm hands; this article aims to detail aspects of who these prisoners were and what they did in captivity.

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The present paper is focusing on the interpretation of a coin deposit found within a sacred area at one of the key fortresses in Iron Age Dacia – Costești-Cetățuie.Based on a detailed catalogue, the analysis is taking into account the closest analogy, the geographic area of coin type distribution, the monetary iconography and the comparison with similar situations from other parts of ancient Europe prior to the Roman conquest.Following these aspects, the conclusions are emphasizing the votive function instead of economic one of certain coins when deposited in specific areas and in association with particular artefacts. It is demonstrated that this ritual practice at the Costești is part of a general pattern.Chronologically, this votive deposit may be connected with the ritual activity at the Costești fortress in the aftermath of the Dacian king, Burebista, campaign at the Black Sea shore (second half of the 1st century BC).

At the end of January 2020, three weeks before Italy reported its first Corona virus infection, the Chinese community of Prato, around fifty thousand people—a quarter of this small northern textile...

Just over a quarter of a century has passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union made available an abundance of long-concealed, uncensored documents on the work of Konstantin Stanislavsky. As ...